Fabio José Báez, head of maintenance at Pawa Dominicana airline, has complained that all of the airline executives have left the country and there is no administrator to pay employee the wages they are owed. The 480 Pawa employee severance payments could be more than US$2 million, as reported in the press.
Baez noted that the company is not bankrupt and as such, all of the employees and technicians should receive their wages. He asked the Ministry of Labor not to approve the 90-day wage suspension provision for emergency situations. Báez spoke up in representation of Pawa employees and says they simply want to be compensated for their work.
Pawa has requested that the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) reconsider the 90-day flight suspension imposed on the airline. Meanwhile, IDAC took control of Pawa assets, including seven airplanes. Alejandro Herrera, director of IDAC, said, nevertheless, that IDAC does not have an inventory of the assets of the airline. The owner of the airline, Venezuelan Simeón García and general manager, US citizen Gary Stone are abroad.
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Pawa
El Aviador
Diario Libre
Hoy
13 February 2018
